I'm the CEO of TiqIQ.com, which is the leading ticket search engine online. I started my professional career as a writer covering New York technology in 1996. I've been fascinated by the ticket market from a young age and remember trying to understand what drove the market in front of Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden. After working in eCommerce for much of my career, I decided to start a company dedicated to tracking those prices with the benefit of technology and helping consumers get the best possible deals.

Jets Tickets Up 12.6% From Last Season On Secondary Market

After two AFC Championship Game appearances in 2009 and 2010, the New York Jets have failed to finish above .500 in the following three seasons. The Jets have finished two of the past three seasons at .500, and middle of the pack is where Jets tickets stand on the secondary market for the 2014 season. According to TiqIQ, the average price for Jets tickets this season is $196.03, the 16th most expensive of the 32 NFL teams.

Entering the 2013 season, coming off a 6-10 record the year before, Jets tickets had an average price of just $174.04 on the secondary market. The 12.6% increase to this season could be a result of optimism for a winning season in 2014. The Jets made some big name moves in the offseason to help aid the team to get over the 8-8 hump, mostly on the offensive side of the ball. Running back Chris Johnson and wide receiver Eric Decker are expected to help an offense that lacked playmakers last season. While the team has stated Geno Smith is still the starter at quarterback, the signing of Michael Vick gives the team an adequate backup option they did not posses last season.

For individual games, divisional matchups, outside of the New England Patriots, bring down the Jets’ season average as the two cheapest games on the secondary market come against the Miami Dolphins and Buffalo Bills. The Week 8 game against the Bills has an average price of just $163.26, 16.7% below the season average. That isn’t surprising when considering Buffalo has the cheapest secondary market average price in the league. The game against the Dolphins is scheduled for Monday Night Football Week 13, but has an average price of just $171.41. The Jets will host one other prime time game, Week 3 against the Chicago Bears on another Monday night. The secondary market average price for that game is still 3.9% below the season average at $188.46.

The most expensive home game on the Jets schedule this season will come Week 6 against Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos. When the Broncos return to the stadium of their blowout Super Bowl loss to the Seattle Seahawks, the average price will be, the average price is currently $243.55, 24.2% above the season average. That price, however, is still below the average price of the other team that plays in MetLife Stadium, the New York Giants.

This season, home games on the New York Giants schedule have an average price of $339.40, the sixth most expensive price in the league and 73% more expensive than the average secondary market price of Jets tickets. In fact, the least expensive average price for a 2014 Giants game, Week 2 against the Arizona Cardinals, is 4.2% more expensive than the Jets’ most expensive game. Still, the Jets had a better record than the Giants in 2013, for the first time since 2010, and the hope is that will continue with the additions to the offense and another year as one of the league’s top defenses.

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